Agnes Pargiter

From The visitations of Northamptonshire made in 1564 and 1618-19 : page 41:

William Pargiter of Greatworth, Gent., eldest son and heir to Robert, mar. Agnes, da. to Christopher Light of Horly, co. Oxon, Gent., and by her had issue,—

1. Robert, his eldest son and heir-apparent; and
2. Christopher, second son (mar ,da. of ... . Hmcell of Marsh, co. Bucks);
3. Suzan, mar. to Cressent Buttery of Lawrence Marston in co. North'ton; and
4. Ursula (mar. to Richard Knight of Timsbury, co. South'ton).

notes

From Blencowe Brides 3: Research notes on Joan Light Blencowe Families’ Association Newsletter Vol. 23 No. 4 November 2008

This next paragraph will delight those of you who enjoy connections with important people and know the “who's who” of the period.

What is evident is that the Light family was of good stock, and inter-connected with the local notable families. Joan Light and Thomas Blencowe's son John married Agnes Pargiter as his first wife: her parents were Robert Pargiter of Greatworth and Anne Knight of Charwelton: Joan's niece Agnes Light married Agnes Pargiter's brother William; another brother George Pargiter (died 1565) married Mary Pinkard, whose brother was John Pinkard: surely some family connection to Emmett Pinkard, who married Thomas Blencowe as her second husband after Joan Light's death? Yet another of the Pargiter children, Ann or Amy, married as her second husband Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave, their son Robert married Elizabeth Light, Joan's great-niece through her nephew Sir Walter Light of Radway Lodge. Another Pargiter sister married William Molle, this family also connected to the Blencowes towards the end of the century by marriage to Mary Walleston's sister Anne. Joan's granddaughter through her son John married a Robert Warner: possibly a grandson of Joan's sister Ann Light's marriage to John Warner?
The wills of the period are invaluable in establishing the many interrelationships of these families, their wealth and social standing, in the absence of parish records. There is evidence that the families were also partners in the wool stapling business of raising sheep and selling the fleeces, much in demand by Flemish weavers, and a significant driver of the programme of enclosure of common land and the eradication of strip farming - even the church in Stutchbury and most of the properties there were pulled down to make way for enclosure by Pargiters, and Blencowes surely took part in this process which disinherited and pauperised the common villagers.

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• The visitations of Northamptonshire made in 1564 and 1618-19 : with Northhamptonshire pedigrees from various Harleian mss. by Harvey, William, d. 1567; Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles); Vincent, Augustine, 1584?-1626 Published 1887.  Page 9.  Buttery, of Marston.
• http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Pargiter-Family-Tree-35
• http://www.red1st.com/axholme/getperson.php?personID=I7098299473&tr...
  • Genealogical Gleanings in England, Henry F. Waters, (Clearfield County, Baltimore (reprint), Genealogical Pub. County Baltimore 1969, orig. pub. 1907, 1800 pp).
  • Visitations of Oxfordshire, (Harleian Society, p. 141,). Light, of Horley.